calculate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 计算， 推算； 计划， 打算，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some are known to you, such as the thermometer, which gives the internal temperature of the Nautilus; the barometer, which indicates the weight of the air and foretells the changes of the weather; the hygrometer, which marks the dryness of the atmosphere; the storm-glass, the contents of which, by decomposing, announce the approach of tempests; the compass, which guides my course; the sextant, which shows the latitude by the altitude of the sun; chronometers, by which I calculate the longitude; and glasses for day and night, which I use to examine the points of the horizon, when the Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves."
-- When I wanted to find out the necessary increase of weight required to sink the Nautilus, I had only to calculate the reduction of volume that sea-water acquires according to the depth."
-- Let us, then, calculate our chances."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'd put 'em bloody-well down this second "The younger man looked after Gudrun and Ursula objectively, as if he wished to calculate what there might be, that was worth his week's wages.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You'll find him not so pliable as you calculate upon: and, though I'm hardly a judge, I think that's the worst motive you've given yet for being the wife of young Linton.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They're so aggravating, so unprincipled, so spiteful unless there's apoplexy in the family, Fred, you can't calculate upon 'em, and even then they deceive you just as often as not.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You can calculate for yourself," I said.
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